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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Clenchwarton CLENCHWARTON. At the survey it is wrote … of bread, &c. In the 18th of Edward II. Robert and Egelina his wife were found to hold of the King in capite, a moiety … Nevill, Marquis Montacute. John, rector of the church of St. Edmund of Castre, gave to the nunnery of Crabhouse, a …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Congham CONGHAM. That is a ham or dwelling by the … Folyet; this Reginald presented as lord to the church of St. Andrews in, 1300, and 1305, and in the reign of Edward … Hillington, &c. in which family it remained some time. Anthony Hamond of Wooton, Esq. was lord in 1750, and his son …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Dersingham DERSINGHAM. Part of this township was … on 12 acres belonging to a freeman, valued at 12 d. but his predecessor had the protection only of this man, and … at his manor of Binham in Norfolk a priory, as a cell to St. Alban's in Hertfordshire, and gave two parts of his …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Emneth, or Enemeth EMNETH, or ENEMETH, So called as … castle of Favillers in Anjou, of the castle of Mervyle, by St. Savory, of Yffe, by Towke in France, and had to the value … ordered that if her niece Lucy Brown, daughter of Sir Anthony Brown by her sister Lucy, (his wife,) did not agree …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Flitcham FLITCHAM, Or Pliceham, Plicham, and … springs and water; the priory was styled on this account, St. Mary de Fontibus, at the springs; 1 Quod ab oriente … among the tenants. 2 On the rebellion of Odo against his nephew, King William II. he was deprived of it, and it …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Gaywode GAYWODE. This town and lordship belonged to … was brother to Stigand, and succeeded him in this see, on his translation to Winchester, in 1047. Before the survey the … all their former grants, and amongst them, the church of St. Magaret at Lynn, with the soc, men, fair, and all their …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Geyton GEYTON. William de Scohies beforementioned … Henry III. In the 17th of Edward II. Richard le Plays and his tenants held 3 fees in Geyton, Wetyng, Feltwell, &c. of … lands here, by deed, dated on Monday before the feast of St. Michael the archangel, to which John de Geyton, &c. was …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Geyton-Throp GEYTON-THORP Roger Bigot, ancestor to … to King Henry II.; he had by the said Margery, William his son and heir, Sir Thomas de Hastings, a descendant from … (that is, Thorp by the water) manor, on the Octaves of St. Martin, before William de Bereford, John de Mutford, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Grimston GRIMSTON. Breccles Manor. The capital manor … of Brunham, with the advowson of a moiety of the church of St. Mary, of Brunham Westgate, and the manor of Little … 7 d. rent, late Roger Bozoun's, son of the said Robert, to Anthony Bedingfeld, Gent. to the use of Anthony, and Roger …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Harpley HARPLEY. The Conqueror granted this town to … William Basset, on Wednesday next before the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, when it was ceded to Matthew, &c. … the church in 1443, and William Gurnay, Esq. in 1485, and Anthony Gurnay, in 1511, who, with Elizabeth, his wife, was …